The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-02
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ing the same story of the disappearance
of her father and adding that the mother
too had gone and left the child uncared for
but last week Howley himself applied
for pension. He described his life in the
hospital, but does not say why he did not go
back to his wife and child, and, what is
strangest of all, he gives Washington, ID. c.,
as his post-office address
RECEIVER RICH of the st. Adams Trust
Company says: The bulk of the remaining
assets of the company consists of about
$1,000 acres of timber land which, in the
long depression of the lumber market, he
has not been able to sell at price which he
thinks they ought to bring. He trusts, and
firmly believes, that he will be able to get
many thousand dollars more than he has
hitherto been offered for them. The delay in
the sale is rendered less matter of regret
by the fact that If the money were in hand
it could not be divided until the suit in IA
vor of preferred creditors" so-called,
shall be decided. The lands are undoubt-
edly approaching in value, and by conse-
quence the depositors are gaining by the
delay in the sale. All the property liable
to depreciate or be destroyed has been sold.
AMONG the letters recently received by
President Smith of the Central Vermont
was one from Philadelphia man, contain
ing proposition for heating cars which
would be perfectly safe as regards the burn
ing of cars after railroad smash-up." The
improved heater" was described as bould-
ers two and one-half feet in diameter, one
to be placed at each end of the car, to be
heated in furnaces built along the road at
intervals of 200 miles. These boulders, the
writer says, could be swung in and out of
the cars by means of small cranes. He also
says that it would be necessary to have in
the sides of the car a door about where the
stoves stand in order to swing them into an
open network of metal. The writer says he
got the idea from domestic affairs by taking
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warm. The inventor of the boulder " sys-
tenn of heating cars forgets to state what
effect his " stove" would have on a coach
full of passengers in case it became loosened
from its mooring by the overturning of a car.
In General.
HENRY NJ STANLEY has arrived at Zan-
zibar.
TERRIBLE blizzard was raging in Dakota
last Friday
LIVE stock is reported in good condition
in Colorado.
WAR rumors are directed toward Russia
and Prussia
AUsTRIAs minister of war says Austria
wants peace
A TORNADO at Orovlle, California, did
great damage.
SIXTY lives were lost by floods in Bris-
bane, Queensland.
REV. JAMES FREEMAN OLARkE, D.D., is
lying at the point of death.
THE grand opera-house at Columbus,
Ohio, is burned; loss $4,000
IT appears that the reported loss of cattle
in the Northwest was exaggerated.
BURGLARS got $4,000 from a safe in
Gainesville, Mo-, on Saturday night.
THERE are further reports of restitution
among the people of Newfoundland.
STRIKERS at Spencer, Mass, have grown
so boisterous that riot is now feared.
PRINCE ALEXANDER, lately deposed from
the Bulgarian throne, has the smallpox.
SEVEN new cases of smallpox were re-
ported last week Thursday in New York.
RUGGs block in Haverhill, Mass, and adj
joining buildings were burned loss 100000
A CYCLONE struck Eatonton, Ca, on Sat
urday. One man was killed and several in
jured.
TOLEDO, o., is excited over the discovery
of new and productive oil-wells in the
vicinity.
Mrs. MARIA REYES HERNANDEZ of Ver-
males, in Cuba, has just died at the age of
1873 years.
CHARGES of excessive cruelty against the
warden and keepers of Sing Sing have been
preferred.
BARNABEE Tom Karl, w. H. Macdonald
Company.
A FACTORY has been built at Madgeburg
Germany, for the manufacture of sugar out
of coal-tar.
ELEVEN thoroughbred horses, valued at
$4,000, were burned to death in Council
Bluffs, Iowa.
A BosToN justice has sentenced a man
who threw a stone at a street-car to years
Imprisonment.
SEVERE weather in Dakota and Montana
is holding railroad trains and killing off cat
tie by the hundreds.
REV. CHARLES w. WARD of Englewood.
n. j., ATTEMPTED to kill his wife, child and
himself while insane.
DIR. Won TAvERNA has been appointed to
succeed Baron Won Schaeffer as Austrian
minister at Washington.
B. p. SUMNER, a brakeman on the Ches-
hire road, aged nineteen, was killed Friday
at Ashburnham junction.
FIFTEEN hundred delegates from all parts
of the country attended the working-mens
convention at Cincinnati.
A CHINESE laundryman in Pttsburg
Jung Toy married white girl, aged twenty
five The girls family approve.
THE Connecticut supreme court confirms
the decision of the lower tribunal convict
ing three boycotters of conspiracy.
RICHARD PENNIsTAN, an English actor,
who drew $500, 600 in the Royal Havana lot
terry in 1873, has become penniless.
TWENTY-FIVE more Mormon elders are in
the South engaged in making converts for
the Church of the Latter-day Saints.
UNGER, who was convicted of manslaugh-
ter, in killing BOIL in Brooklyn, was SEN
fenced to twenty years in the state prison.
The river bank at Leotz, Miss, suddenly
caved Thursday. Merchandise on the
wharves was lost and some shops fell into
the water
THE cattle commissioners of Maine have
ordered that all cattle entering that state
from Massachusetts, New York or Illinois
be quarantined
A SUCCESSFUL test of warming cars by
steam has been made between st. Paul and
Minneapolis, and will now be tried for a
longer distance.
FIRE in Catholic church at Putnam, Ct,
during service created a panic. Several
persons tainted; others were badly hurt
by being trodden upon.
are appealing to the companies to restore
their husbands and fathers to the employ
ment they voluntarily relinquished
Hon. CARL ScHURz slipped on New York
pavement Saturday and broke his hip, Gen
eral Butler fell on a slippery sidewalk in
Philadelphia and dislocated his shoulder.
THE trouble in the Indiana senate con-
tinues Colonel Robertson was recently eX-
PEELED by the doorkeepers after making di-
rect claim to his seat in the name OF the
Constitution.
THE election in the Second Rhode district